[Testaceans (Protozoa: Testacea) in quaternary permafrost sediments of Bykovsky Peninsula, arctic Yakutia]. / Rakovinnye ameby (Protozoa: Testacea) v chetvertichnykh mnogoletnemerzlykh otlozheniiakh poluostrova Bykovskii, arkticheskaia Iakutiia.

ABSTRACT

The results of the first protozoological study in terms of paleoecology of long-term sediments and buried soils formed in the cryolite zone of northeastern Siberia are discussed. The data on testaceans (Protozoa Testacea) inhabiting various sites of Bykovsky Peninsula, Laptev Sea coast near estuary of Lena, within the last 53,000 years (late Pleistocene and Holocene).